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Monday, March 25, 2013

25 Pounds Reward

TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS REWARD OR A CONDITIONAL PARDON.

Whereas it has been represented to His Excellency the Governor; that Mr. Andrew Gregor and a female servant in his employment, have been recently murdered by the native blacks, at the Pine River, in the Moreton Bay district :-Notice is hereby given, that a Reward of Twenty-five Pounds will be paid to any free person or persons who may secure and bring to justice the murderer or murderers, or if a prisoner of the Crown, application will be made to Her Majesty for the allowance to him of conditional pardon.

Moreton Bay Courier - 28 November 1846Could the female servant be one Mary Ann DEAMSTER who died on 20th October 1847Andrew Gregor died on 18th October 1847